Sian and Johns travelling story

Month: February 2016

We only stayed one night in Vancouver before travelling to San Francisco, and we didn’t do much there as I was still feeling rotten from my cold. We caught the subway to the airport for the bargain price of $2.70 each as it was a weekend special price. We had to catch a flight to … More San Francisco – First day

I woke up full of cold on our third day in whistler, runny nose, stuffy head the lot. I had my porridge and got myself ready for another day skiing, hoping that some fresh mountain air would do me some good. The Excalibur gondola had no que so we decided to head up there again. … More Last 2 days skiing in Whistler

After a pretty successful first day back one the slopes we set the alarm for 7am and woke to blue skies and sunshine, a stark contrast from the previous day’s weather conditions. We fueled up on a large bowl of porridge and bananas, then headed out to catch the bus to Whistler Village. Whistler … More Skiing in Whistler

We hadn’t initially planned to go to Canada on February 15th, but having kept an eye on accommodation prices we decided to do a last minute (the day before!) change of plan and head to Canada early. I’ve used booking.com the entire way through our trip to book hotel rooms, I find their website easy … More From Vegas to Vancouver – Skiing in Whistler

We scoured the Internet for the cheapest deal to get us to Vegas, looking at driving, flying and taking the coach. Eventually I came across a price comparison website for land travel across America called Wanderu, we booked greyhound tickets through here for $19 each which was a significant amount cheaper than flying. If you … More Las Vegas

You could just about make out the Hollywood sign from the left side of the plane as we came in to land. Our flight was just over 9 hours, pretty turbulent but fairly empty. Thankfully no one was sat in front of us so I managed to curl up on 2 seats and get a … More Los Angeles

A fun thing to do whilst on Rarotonga is visit the jet blast area located each end of the runway. We heard 2 conflicting stories about which direct the planes take off and land. One stating they take off and land against the wind, the other saying its upto air traffic control. It seems it’s … More Rarotonga jet blast area

We hired a car to enable us to see more of the island, as it’s currently low season car hire is $35pd (currency is NZ dollars, supplemented by a few unique coins). Our first car went back after the engine management light came on and it was making a horrendous noise. We had already … More Rarotonga

The founder of lonely planet calls Aitutaki “the worlds most beautiful island” . He isn’t wrong. At first we were put off by the cost of an Aitutaki day trip, but after meeting two different sets of people who said it was a must do trip we bit the bullet and booked with Air Rarotonga. … More Aitutaki – We found paradise

We took off from Auckland at 4:20pm on Saturday 30th January. After a 3.5 hour flight we landed in Rarotonga at 8:50pm on Friday January 29th. We are time travellers… Although read on to find out why John preferred January 30th better the first time around. Your first greeting after landing in The Cook Islands … More Rarotonga – First few days on The Cook Islands